Diabetes Out-of-the-Box: Diabetes Mellitus and Impairment in Hearing and Vision.

Abstract

PURPOSEOF REVIEW:

This review aims to provide an update on the etiologies of diabetes that are due to genetic disorders and that co-occur with impaired hearing or vision and to compare them. The potential mechanisms, including novel treatments, will be detailed.

RECENT FINDINGS:

Wolfram syndrome, Kearns-Sayre syndrome, thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia, and maternally inherited diabetes and deafness are genetic disorders characterized by diabetes, impaired hearing, and vision. They differ in mode of inheritance, age at presentation, and the involvement of other organs; they are often misdiagnosed as type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Suspicion of a genetic diabetes syndrome should be raised when pancreatic autoantibodies are negative, other organs are involved, and family history includes diabetes. Correct diagnosis of the various syndromes is important for tailoring the most advanced treatment, preventing disease progression, and enabling proper genetic counseling.

• Authors: Noah Gruber, Orit Pinhas-Hamiel
• Journal: Current diabetes reports (Curr Diab Rep) Vol. 22 Issue 9 Pg. 423-432 (09 2022) ISSN: 1539-0829 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 35789979 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
• Copyright: © 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Chemical References

• Thiamine

Topics

• Anemia, Megaloblastic (complications, diagnosis, genetics)
• Deafness
• Diabetes Mellitus (diagnosis, genetics)
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 (complications, diagnosis, genetics)
• Hearing
• Hearing Loss, Sensorineural (complications, diagnosis, genetics)
• Humans
• Mitochondrial Diseases
• Thiamine
• Thiamine Deficiency (complications, genetics)